Cue the Lounge Music...He's Back!!

Talking to AlanH again?

I particularly like the fact that his trains and layout are 1:1 scale.

Stay wasted my friends.

I believe the residuals from his cat's Chessie contract have him set up for life!!  

I hear that smoke rings emitted by the 765 eventually form his profile.

At grade crossings, trains stop for HIM.

He owns a fleet of 1:1 Natty Boh reefers...

Madison Hardware sells him actual hardware...

The knuckle coupler is modeled after his fist...

He warned Lee Willis about Simple Green...

The freight cars on his layout earn actual revenue...

He once gave Tony Lash one of his smaller layouts...

He is, the most interesting man in the train world.

"I don't always have time for hobbies, but when I do, I choose trains."

"Stay O gauge my friends."

Jerry

Union Paciic maintains a steam program out of respect for him.

The CSX system map is modeled after his home layout.

Amtrak's "Southwest Chief" is named in honor of his private train.

Before Grand Central Terminal was a train station, it was his private office.

He is...the most interesting main in the train world.

Love how most of you have run with the theme!

That was me.

I am star struck!

Operating accessories on his layout produce high-quality glossy paper from real trees. Then the OGR staff comes to his home and prints each issue.

They bring that issue to him in his private car, one so ornate that the Virginia City (the private car of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg) looks like a transfer caboose in comparison.

Lucius Beebe, Charles Clegg, and David P. Morgan regretted that their eloquent prose fell short of portraying his lifestyle.

Ditto for photos by Richard Steinheimer, Don Wood, and O. Winston Link

And also for paintings by Howard Fogg and Grif Teller

After meeting him, your wife could hardly wait to buy trains for him.

Mike Wolf calls him to find out what will be in the next MTH catalog.......

I don't even know Jerry but this is funny stuff!

You have far too much spare time on your hands, Mike!

Simon

Warren Buffett

You guys are cracking me up with your imaginations!  Thanks for the great laughs!  It's healthy and I needed it today!  Keep it rolling!

Phil

He had a recent conversation with Mike Caruso and suggested the mid-week theme be changed to "Cue the Lounge Music... He's Back!!!" The rest is history.

OK, that was too easy.

He recently said

That mid-week haiku is now

Mid-Week Diversion!

Better?

He constructed buildings in Bridgeport, CT; Chicago, IL; New Haven, CT; Erie and Girard, PA; and Irvington/Hillside, NJ. They resembled factories but they were distribution centers for his excess inventory.

Louis Marx turned down his assistance in marketing the Bunny Train.

In Great Britain, they have their own most interesting man...

Some say he will eat only anthracite coal for breakfast...

And when he whistles, a jet of steam shoots out of his rectum.

All I know is that he is called The Stig!

.....all of his new trains run perfectly out of the box

.... TCA Eastern personnel are trying to photograph him when he tours the Orange Hall at York

That's cold, man!  

I wish.  No such luck.  He politely informed me that his schedule is too hectic and his global travels in search of rare and collectible trains too intensive to allow him more than an occasional visit when he's in the area.  

Besides, as much as he enjoys watching little metal and plastic toys run around in circles, he much prefers hanging out with his "other friends."

Who are all obviously kicking back and enjoying watching little metal and plastic toys run around in circles!

Rusty

He considers a trip on the Orient Express "average accommodations."

He considers a trip on the Trans-Siberian "a little short for his taste."

He's the guy the drunk was talking about...

(Two drunks were walking down a New York City street when one fell down the subway steps.  When he got back up top he told his drinking partner, "...boy you got to see that guy's train set in the basement!" )

OK, just who is this guy???????

You haven't been paying attention...

Looks like Thursdays at Friday's

Whew Guys,

I thought you meant the loon that talked about adjusting knuckle couplers with oven mitts! Remember that guy? I don't want to mention it here partly due to my poor memory, partly due to the fact that I don't to egg you guys on! Just the fact that this guy pictured above is not the guy that I just mentioned calms me down quite a bit!!

The guy pictured above does have Henry Flagler characteristics though!

Mike

Near as I can tell he's a fashion model posing for a brand of Mexican beer that tastes like carbonated defrost, about on a level with Iron City and Lone Star.  You want a nationally distributed beer at least

have a Sam Adams.

Pete

has more atlas beer reefers then ben does...